B/W Ashen Damnation

Standard*

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Creature (6)

• 3x Ashen Rider
• 3x Crypt Ghast

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms

Land (24)

• 4x Godless Shrine
• 2x Orzhov Guildgate
• 4x Plains
• 10x Swamp
• 4x Temple of Silence

Enchantment (6)

• 2x Gift of Immortality
• 2x One Thousand Lashes
• 2x Underworld Connections

Artifact (4)

• 2x Elixir of Immortality
• 2x Whip of Erebos

Instant (15)

• 3x Devour Flesh
• 3x Doom Blade
• 4x Hero's Downfall
• 3x Orzhov Charm
• 2x Ultimate Price

Sorcery (4)

• 2x Diabolic Tutor
• 2x Merciless Eviction

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Sideboard

Creature (11)

• 3x Fiendslayer Paladin
• 2x High Priest of Penance
• 3x Sin Collector
• 3x Soldier of the Pantheon

Artifact (1)

• 1x Pithing Needle

Instant (1)

• 1x Ultimate Price

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Obzedat's Aid

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Maybeboard

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Blind Obedience

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Merciless Eviction

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B/W Ashen damnation,As always - Tips, suggestions and just comments always welcome.

Based on control till 8 mana for Ashen Rider.Mana can come from either flat out lands,Crypt Ghast or Liliana of the Dark Realms token.

Several combo's in there such as:

• Ashen Rider + Whip of Erebos
• Ashen Rider + Devour Flesh (when takeover / destroyed for life gain)
• Ashen Rider + Triad of Fates
• Ashen Rider + Orzhov Charm

I'm going to go over my personal reasons for most of the cards, and i'm very open to discuss points.

Creatures

• Ashen Rider - Main win condition for this deck, amazing with removal of all kinds of nasty indistructable things / planewalkers / anything, even lands..

• Crypt Ghast - Mana catalyst, as well as helps keeping your own health up, and enemy health slowly down with Extort, considering you have a high Instant + Enchantment + Sorcery count, Extort comes in handy.

• Triad of Fates - Combo's nicely with Ashen Rider, quite slow, but also nice for emergency opponent creature removal (though him drawing 2 cards is a big drawback), or getting yourself a free 2 card draw if one of your creatures is going down. Make sure to have fate counters on all your creatures...

Instants

• Devour Flesh - Amazing for hexproof / indestructable, awesome 2 mana instant.

• Doom Blade - Cheap removal, Also easy switch out when facing black creature deck.

• Hero's Downfall - Never build a black deck without it for the current meta. Removes creatures and planewalkers.

• Orzhov Charm - Used to save your own creatures from destruction, or combo with Ashen Rider (End of opponent turn - take Ashen Rider to hand - recast for effect on your main phase. LAST RESORT enemy creature removal as well (use with care, while we have lifegain in this deck, its slow and limited).

• Ultimate Price - Good against mono-colored decks, switched out for multi-colored decks (sideboard).

Enchantments

• One Thousand Lashes - Most amazing underrated card imho. Leaves enemy's big whopping creature with awesome effect as a useless self-harming dud on battlefield. Use with care, as renders Devour Flesh useless. Also keep in mind the other effect is for ACTIVATED abilities, not passive ones...

• Underworld Connections - Draw draw draw, must have in this deck, 1 life should be managable with the lifegain in the deck.

• Whip of Erebos - Used for lifegain + Ashen Rider combo from Graveyard. Use with care, as it will cause Ashen Rider to get Exiled after hitting, and we want to try and save them with Elixir of Immortality when possible... but as last resort / fast removal of a huge threat, its awesome.

Artifacts

• Elixir of Immortality - While primarily here for lifegain, serves as a rescue for our fallen Ashen Riders as well as against mill decks. Allows us to kill our own Ashen Riders with Ultimate Price / Devour Flesh / Hero's Blade for the exile effect when needed.

Sorcery

• Diabolic Tutor - 4 mana search any card? yes please, this deck has a very few amount of actual "end game" cards, that need to be handy when we can. Allows us to look for those cluth save situational cards, or just get our Ashen Rider out.

• Merciless Eviction - Amazing clear-the-board card, keep in mind it has a double edged sword effect as Exile wont trigger Ashen Rider's on death effect.. and we lose said Ashen Rider, still, needed here against those fast spawn creature decks (Yes red, im talking about you) - another card we can look for with Diabolic Tutor

Planewalker

• Liliana of the Dark Realms - first and foremost, get that mana faster. if you manage to get her token effect out, its crazy powerful for this deck. and when push comes to shove, the -x/-x effect is awesome for removal of indestructable things as well as just another removal. the +x/+x can be used to end a game too.

Sideboard

• Blind Obedience - Slow down decks that are too fast.. Extort.

• High Priest of Penance - Replaces Doom Blade / Ultimate Price when needed.

• Merciless Eviction - Not sure if needed, currently more as placeholders. I still find these amazing, and good against heavy enchant / creature decks.

• Pithing Needle - Quite standard in all my sideboards.

• Sin Collector - Good against red burn / blue control decks.

• Soldier of the Pantheon - Crazy powerful against multicolor decks for such a low cost..

• Triad of Fates - Again - more of a placeholder, i just felt 1 of it in the deck was a little underwhelming..

Sideboard needs work, Currently thinking:

• 3x Fiendslayer Paladin

Self-thought of deck.Been having a BLAST playing it.It doesn't ofc win 100% of the time, but even when losing its fun, and when it works.. its crazy nice and fun.

Again - comments / suggestions welcome!Cheers!xSic

Date added	10 years
Last updated	10 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 16 - 11 Rares 15 - 4 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.44
Tokens	Emblem Liliana of the Dark Realms